This year’s DAAD Prize goes to Betül Peker from Türkiye. In addition to her outstanding academic achievements in her Media Art and Design Master's programme, she has demonstrated an impressive range of intercultural and social commitment both within and outside of the University.

Radio in Germany is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023. To mark this occasion, the artistic research project »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio« is exploring listening as a global phenomenon. Sound artists and researchers as well as radio practitioners and theorists came together in Montevideo (March 2023) and Manila/Sagada (August 2023) to examine the past, present and future of regional and transregional listening during workshops. On 21 and 22 October 2023, the preliminary outcomes of the cooperative project between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Goethe-Institut and Deutschlandfunk Kultur will now be presented at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

Die französische Soziologin, Fotografin und Stadtplanerin Dr. habil. Cécile Cuny ist vom 1. September bis 31. Dezember 2023 DAAD-Gastdozentin am Institut für Europäische Urbanistik. In diesem Zeitraum wird sie unter anderem die Lehre an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik durch ein Seminar zum Thema »Stadtlogistik in Krisenzeiten« bereichern und ein Kolloquium zu Stadtlogistik in deutsch-französischer Perspektive organisieren.

Under the motto »Open.Ateliers«, the students of this year's Bauhaus Summer School will exhibit their work on 1 September, starting at 3 pm, and give visitors the opportunity to get to know their ideas, concepts and artistic works.

Twelve young scientists and their mentors from the USA, Poland, Austria and Germany will come to Weimar this August for the »Media Philology 2023« Summer Academy The event will be held from 28 to 30 August in the Bibliothek Julius Petersen of the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv and will address questions on media studies and philology.

From 13 August to 2 September 2023, experimentation, learning and building will be taking over the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus once more: 215 participants from 50 different countries will be attending various one- to three-week language and tech-nical courses at the Bauhaus Summer School.

Im Rahmen eines speziellen und erstmals stattfindenden Gästeprogramms, das vom Dezernat Internationale Beziehungen koordiniert wurde, waren Vertreter*innen internationaler Partnerhochschulen während der summaery2023 an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar zu Gast. Vom 12. bis 14. Juli 2023 erhielten die Partner*innen Einblick in studentische Projekte und Themen und kamen mit Mitarbeitenden sowie Studierenden ins Gespräch.

Der Bachelor-Architekturstudent Joachim Brönner ist für sein einjähriges Entwurfsprojekt »The Urban Food Exchange«, entstanden während seines Auslandsjahres an der schottischen Glasgow School of Art, mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden.

As coordinating university of the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar – together with six partner universities – received the European Commission’s Seal of Excellence in June 2023. It was awarded to the University Alliance for its proposal within the scope of the »European Universities« initiative. The overarching goal of the University Alliance is to promote the sustainable and inclusive development of European regions.

On Saturday, 10 June 2023, the Gropius Room Pavilion will be handed over to Weimar’s Finnish partner city of Hämeenlinna during an opening ceremony. The Gropius Room Pavilion, which has been travelling around Weimar’s partner cities as an ambassador for the Bauhaus and democracy since 2019, will form part of public life in Hämeenlinna this summer before returning to the founding site of the Bauhaus in mid-August after a journey that has lasted four years. In Weimar, the original director’s room will set up outside the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar to celebrate »100 Years of Bauhaus Exhibition«.

Anlässlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des Alumnivereins »Europäische Medienkultur« e.V. findet vom 9. bis 11. Juni 2023 erstmalig das EMKultur-Festival in Weimar statt. Ehemalige und derzeitige Studierende des deutsch-französischen Studienganges »Europäische Medienkultur« (EMK) laden Interessierte zu einem interkulturellen Festivalprogramm mit Vorträgen- und Diskussionsrunden, Mitmachaktionen, einer Filmsichtung und mehreren Musikveranstaltungen ein.

On Wednesday, 24 May 2023, Jane Bennett gave her inaugural lecture in the packed Oberlichtsaal at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. We’ve shared some impressions of the evening with the guest professor from the renowned Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as the workshop with her on the following day in the picture gallery below.

Each year, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar announces a new Bauhaus Guest Professor. For the 2023 summer semester, the university will have the privilege of hosting Professor Jane Bennett, who is the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, with appointments in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature and also in the Department of Political Science. The focus of Bennett’s work lies in political theory; her research interests include ecological philosophy, political thought in the United States, political rhetoric and belief, and contemporary social theory.

All over Germany, you can find friends living far away from one another, couples in long-distance relationships and grandparents living far away from their grandchildren. While spending time together in video conferences is a possibility, this form of shared experience has its limits. Social Virtual Reality provides extended potential for these interactions. But how can interactions that foster social intimacy be further improved in virtual spaces? This question is the focal point of the »GROOVE« research project. Together with researchers from the Technischen Universität Ilmenau, Brandenburg Labs GmbH and Consensive GmbH, researchers from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be receiving 1.5 million euros in funding over 1.5 years from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Im Oktober 2020 startete an der Professur Marketing und Medien mit »brandY« ein Vorhaben von insgesamt 11 europäischen Hochschulen. Ziel des Projektes war die Konzeption, Testung und Implementierung eines interaktiven Lernprogramms zur internationalen Markenführung. Vom 27. Februar bis 3. März 2023 konnten nun sechs Studierende aus dem Masterstudiengang Medienmanagement in Annecy innerhalb eines Intensivkurses eine erste Version der Anwendung testen und weiterentwickeln.

From 23 March to 1 April 2023, 118 students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and its European partner universities will take part in the second Bauhaus Spring School. In five courses on architecture and urbanism, media and culture, participants will have the chance to work together intensively on joint projects. This ERASMUS short-term programme began in the 2022/23 winter semester with online courses and will now continue with a ten-day in-person phase in Weimar.

From 1 to 31 March 2023, Hon. Prof. Micky Remann will visit the Thai Chulalangkorn University in Bangkok as a visiting professor. Together with the Asian students, he will develop concepts for 360-degree projections and performances in lectures and exercises.

Single-use plastics have officially been banned in Bangladesh. But they are still part of the urban landscape. Researchers from the »SCIP plastics« project in Bangladesh and Germany, however, are seeking alternatives. Research associate Susanne Kühlewindt reports on this in the third instalment of the research log.

Even if digital communication effortlessly connects continents, it cannot replace personal exchange. Especially when a research team from Germany and Bangladesh is supposed to grow together in order to search for solutions together. The second episode of the research diary »SCIP Plastics« is about the first joint meeting in Bangladesh. Project employees from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), the Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET) and the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) met. Research assistant Senta Berner reports on her impressions.

On 13 September 2022, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman Zhina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested by the so-called morality police in Tehran for allegedly not wearing her hijab in accordance with government standards. Some days after her arrest, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini died in hospital. Her death was caused by lethal police brutality while in custody.